• The LinkedIn AI Slop Phenomenon:

  • The author critiques the overwhelming prevalence of superficial computer vision demos dominating LinkedIn feeds (such as basic hand-tracking or webcam gesture projects).
  • These projects follow formulaic hustle-culture storytelling, turning trivial software tutorials into grandiose metaphors about leadership and business management.
  • The goal of these posts is performative engagement and self-marketing rather than deploying functional, production-ready engineering solutions.

• Building a YOLO Slop Detector in 90 Minutes:

  • To prove how trivial it is to manufacture these seemingly advanced showcases, the author built an automated detector for LinkedIn slop projects.
  • The workflow involved scraping 200 screenshots from LinkedIn feeds, annotating bounding boxes in Roboflow within 20 minutes, and exporting them in YOLOv8 format.
  • Fine-tuning a pretrained yolov8n.pt model via Ultralytics took roughly 30 minutes on low-end hardware, demonstrating that creating these projects requires negligible effort.
  • The exercise satirizes how quickly one can label themselves an "AI thought leader" or "computer vision specialist" using boilerplate tooling.

• Incentives and Silence in the Feed:

  • Public comment sections rarely call out low-effort or deceptive projects because comments are directly tied to professional profiles.
  • Calling out low-quality work risks alienating recruiters or appearing hostile, creating an environment where peers politely praise slop instead of providing honest critique.
  • Platform algorithms reward visibility and looking interesting over real technical substance.

Hacker News Discussion

• Strategic "Larping" for Internal Career Growth:

  • Several commenters admitted to intentionally participating in performative posting, not for vanity, but as a deliberate tactic to stay visible to executive decision-makers and secure internal promotions.
  • Others pushed back, arguing that needing social media posts to get recognized by internal leadership reflects a dysfunctional organizational culture, though pragmatists noted that internal visibility and social capital matter in corporate politics.

• Platform Utility vs. Performative Noise:

  • A common sentiment was deep distaste for the cringe-worthy, AI-generated "thought leadership" and aggressive notifications that dominate the platform.
  • Despite this, many users acknowledged LinkedIn remains an unavoidable necessity for technical recruiting, direct job offers, and passive career networking in modern tech.

• Platform Lock-In and Anti-Scraping Defenses:

  • Discussions touched on LinkedIn's aggressive measures against headless browsers, scraping, and automated agents.
  • Participants pointed out that LinkedIn relies heavily on ad impressions and expensive Premium subscriptions, giving the platform every incentive to block automated tools and force users through its manual interface.

Fairlinked published their findings about LinkedIn scanning for browser plugins/fingerprints without consent, on a separate URL

Fairlinked e.V. is a registered association in Germany, representing professional LinkedIn users and business depending on the LinkedIn platform. Wrt DMA (and DSA) compliance.

Their data intermediary services are aimed add enabling data access requests under the DMA. Their primary focus is LinkedIn.

Fairlinked e.V. is registered as DGA data intermediary with the German federal gov (Bundensnetzagentur).

:D

• The author investigated the privacy implications of LinkedIn's "Identity Verification" badge, which is handled by a third-party provider called Persona.
• To verify, users must provide a government ID, a live "selfie" (biometric scan), and access to NFC data on their passport.
• Upon examining the legal disclosures, the author found that data is shared with a surprisingly long list of 17 subprocessors.
• Notable subprocessors listed include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Groqcloud, raising concerns about biometric and personal data being used for AI training.
• The privacy policy cites "Legitimate Interest" as the legal basis for processing, which the author suggests is a way to bypass explicit consent for data sharing.
• The article concludes that the perceived value of a "verified" checkmark on a professional profile does not outweigh the significant privacy risks and the distribution of sensitive biometric data to numerous tech corporations.

Hacker News Discussion

• A top comment notes that Persona’s CEO responded to the claims, asserting that no personal data is used for AI training and that biometric data is deleted immediately after processing.
• The CEO claimed the full list of subprocessors is a "catch-all" for all their services (like background checks), and only 8 subprocessors are actually used for the identity verification product specifically.
• Many users remained skeptical of the "catch-all" explanation, arguing that if a company is sure about privacy, they should explicitly limit the legal language rather than using broad "CYA" (Cover Your Assets) terms.
• Commenters discussed the inherent risks of "Know Your Customer" (KYC) processes, noting that even if data is deleted, the initial collection creates a honeypot for potential breaches.
• Some participants argued that the "Legitimate Interest" justification is often abused in the EU to avoid the stricter requirements of explicit consent under GDPR.
• There was a general consensus among technical users that a social media badge is insufficient justification for handing over highly sensitive, unchangeable biometric markers.

Harold left FB 2015, Twitter 2023. As ambivalent about LinkedIn as I am. Says his engagement there is down by a factor 30. Only one in 7 of his contacts even sees his post.

Vgl [[Early Adoption - Early Leaving]]

LinkedIn API november 2025 version, mentioned as element in complying with DMA portability requirements. This is meant for companies not members then? But it says members. And it was offered to me when trying to download my personal account.

It seems LinkedIn has put this in place of a regular download, actually making it harder to get at your data.

Six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein

Nolto positions itself as a LinkedIn replacement.

'activitypub compatible' whatever that means.

• [ ] return what this is, who / where

for - post - LinkedIn - social movements - are dead - Joe Brewer

for - from - LinkedIn post - AI LLM judgment vs human judgment - https://hyp.is/UdbScM05EfC_JWs5FhG-Mg/www.linkedin.com/posts/walterquattrociocchi_ive-never-had-two-editorials-in-top-tier-activity-7399375954743123968-Sn9Y/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - LinkedIn post - Jeffrey Epstein - network operative

for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post - The 2025 state of the climate report - https://hyp.is/lPJTusSfEfCeLIMW445BRg/www.linkedin.com/posts/drscottkelly_climatechange-sustainability-energy-activity-7391036539549409280-K2Fa/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - LinkedIn post - 2025 State of the Climate Report - to - The 2025 State of the Climate Report - https://hyp.is/fFyTOMSfEfC2PIPR2ti4gg/academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627

for - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language%3F&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 search results returned - interesting - to - article - Can You Unlearn A Language? - IFLScience It's definitely possible to lose fluency in your native language, but research suggests you're unlikely to forget it altogether. - https://hyp.is/MdiWar0dEfC4ajvO0fJCkA/www.iflscience.com/can-you-unlearn-a-language-70874 - from - Linkedin post - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/pIMO8rzIEfCPtcvbQ8nTxg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7392196128005537792/

new search prompt - This prompt did not give me the results I was looking for - Need to refine the prompt - Can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - to - new search prompt - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? -

for - neuroscience - 10 tests - LinkedIn post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - neuroscience - to - Lab of Misfits - 10 tests - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto

for - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - from - Linkedin post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - https://hyp.is/7YqrerxxEfCuEIeI8IcHTg/www.linkedin.com/posts/beau-lotto_who-am-i-humans-have-probably-been-asking-activity-7232008275641163779--zxp/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - Beautiful Mind Learning Labs - Question - Is it the same as Hummingbird Learning Labs? - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto

for - Hummingbird Learning Lab - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - LinkedIn post - to - Hummingbird Learning Lab - https://hyp.is/_TIP_LxvEfCHr5-_sncjrw/www.hummingbirdlearninglab.com/

for - adjacency - education - neuroscience-based - Beau Lotto - from - LinkedIn - post - Beau Lotto - Hummingbird Learning Lab - https://hyp.is/flcHpLxwEfCNAPNxZT2PJg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7330906080341831680/

for - from - LinkedIn post - Was Language Humanity's First AI? Golding's Forgotten Masterpiece - https://hyp.is/KLNvfrm3EfCqGUsWw6uuNg/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze

for - article - LinkedIn - Has Language trapped humanity? - pre linguistic reality

Summary - very interesting exploration of our pre linguistic life - We modern humans spend most of our lives in the symbolosphere. - It is so ubiquitous that we don't even know it's relative and not absolute, like fish that don't know there's such a thing as water - until they are pulled out of it - Feral children are the ones who have been pulled out of the ocean of language, but they suffer a fate that none of us, from our conditioned language perspective would want to suffer - So how do we, who are deeply conditioned into language look at our situation of being so deeply conditioned? Is there life after (and before) language?

for - book - The Inheritors - William Golding - to - LinkedIn article - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/PS13cLmnEfCpw39_5R3t-A/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/

for - from - LinkedIn article - Has language trapped humanity? - https://hyp.is/54ZYgrmmEfC5Oft3Op2Hiw/www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-language-trapped-humanity-willy-de-backer-vvwoe/

Perhaps something to do also with the fact that human memory tends to retain information better when a high degree of surprise or emotion is associated with an event. See also the hyper-correction effect.

for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn- Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor - carbon credits - obese people - quote - carbon credits like obese people overconsuming without feeling guilty - Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to - obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them or even - demanding that people in countries suffering from food-insecurity reduce their food intake - so that obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty. - It resembles the colonial hoax of “paying” the poor to clean up the mess they cause.- Glenn Sankatsing

for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn - Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor carbon credit - obese people

for - from - LinkedIn post - What if Artists Were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/BXB-XmGvEfCJvBfKjwObTQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/tijntjoelker_art-creativity-systemschange-activity-7350396135213088768-imLO/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - David Suzuki - says - It's too late - comment - LinkedIn post - David Suzuki says "It's too late" - to - article - David Suzuki says it's too late - https://hyp.is/0riUWmGqEfCXcUd-cD_Z-Q/www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/

for - David Suzuki - says - It's too late - from - LinkedIn post - David Suzuki says "It's too late" - https://hyp.is/mtjZSGGtEfCtMm-KtJi5mA/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7348311666352123904/

for - paper - climate crisis - rebound effect - paper - title - Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications - from - post - LinkedIn - rebound effect - https://hyp.is/yz4m_ldBEfC18Bfg0RPf2w/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7346027213776953344/

for - post - LinkedIn - paper - climate crisis - rebound effect - wipes out efficiency gains - to - paper - rebound effects https://hyp.is/Er5r7FdCEfCa45MudqrqPw/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032121000769

for - post - LinkedIn - climate crisis - rebound effect

for - article - substack - Annick De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - from - article - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview"\ - https://hyp.is/oqgW2ivdEfCmu9M8EYHozw/www.linkedin.com/posts/bayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW/ - to - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.indy0.net%2Fipfs%2Fbafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy&group=world - from - Substack article - Can and should expect a spiritual Revolution any time soon? - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/JDDTADInEfCKmLNKpwhsng/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/can-and-should-we-expect-a-spiritual

summary - Annick de Witt takes the reader on a journey of discovery of that looks at the nuances of the complex set of entangled crisis we face today, by referring to the idea of worldviews - She shows how the quagmires now emerging are the result of interplay between three major worldviews, traditional, modern and post-modern and how each represents a partial truth that denies the partial truths held by the others - The article takes the example of Trumpism and the MAGA movement to illustrate, but the same analysis could be extended to the many different cultural worldviews found in different peoples around the globe - In particular, with Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, tensions between the traditional Islamic culture and the West's traditional, modern and post-modern segments of society are again on the rise - The insightful analysis culminates in the proposal for an integral worldview that includes all three but transcends each one - It may be useful to introduce Annick to Greg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (UToK), - https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ - Gregg works with John Vervaeke that Annick has cited - Regarding Bayo Akomolafe's short LinkedIn note on the word "worldview", I respect both Annick's detailed analysis as well as Bayo's interpretation and look forward to a comparative analylsis of these two perspectives around the word "worldview" - I am also in the middle of annotating Lisa E. Maroski's book, Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language, which is salient here as well

Indyweb dev - new Plexmark - analog affirmation slider - while reading the passage I was annotating, I realised that I was in agreement with a lot of what the author was articulating. However, I have no way to indicate this match because it would be too much - this gave rise to a new Plexmark: <br /> - Have an analog control slider for each sentence that indicates - agreement on one side and - disagreement on the other side as well as a - 'don't know' button. - This gives a running indication of resonance with your own salience landscape - This can then be used in conjunction with the Indranet - If there is an indication of strong agreement, then the reader may have strong motivation to investigate that author's mindplex, - especially if there is a strong salience mismatch between the author and the reader, indicating a possible learning event

Retrospective reflections - (See below) adjacency - sacred - relationship with - free - open source - what is your relationship with the sacred? - this is the same as asking - how do you feel in your time of solitude and aloneness? - do you feel deep connection and a sense of not being lonely while you are alone? - to be alienated if not to feel disconnected with others - as it is to be disconnected with the ceaseless sacred that continuously surrounds you, from birth to death

• I propose that the post-modern worldview should be renamed
• why?
• it is a name that is dependent on the second major worldview, modernism
• while the first two worldviews have autonomous names, the third, postmodernism is not autonomous but depends on the second
• the word integral is a good candidate to replace it

• it means integration of both traditional and modern

• two central ideas of Deep Humanity praxis fit into these three worldview

  • progress
  • death awareness
• worldviews can be seen from a progress framed perspective
• progress is a movement from traditional to modern
  • conservatism focuses on the traditional pole while
  • liberalism focuses on the modern pole
  • postmodernism is a universal, cultural retroactive reflection on the relationship between both

• death awareness is a major focus on traditional knowledge systems but

  • postmodernism can definitely benefit from integrating it to provide
    • an integral, inclusive approach that deals effectively with
      • the meaning crisis faced by a secular, modern perspective that has
        • rejected traditional religions without replacing it with anything substantive

• June 27, 2025 - modernism - objective reality - validation - example - personal experience - beeping electricity meter

  • my wife woke me up in the morning and said that the electricity meter is beeping again.
  • I couldn't hear it because my heating isn't as good as hers
  • I trust her when she says this
  • I walked out of the bedroom too go downstairs and turn it off and a soon as I got around the corner in the bedroom, I can hear the beeping sound
  • The easiest explanation for these two different experiences is that the is an existent objective reality which each of us experienced differently ( Occam's Razor)
    • the electricity meter was indeed beeping
  • The post modern. explanation would likely revolve around quantum mechanics but if far from simple or obvious

for - post LinkedIn - book - From Bacteria to AI - reminds me of Micheal Levin's cognitive light cones - adjacency - Micheal Levin's - Katherine Hayle - cognition

for - post - LinkedIn - hair - is biologically active

for - post - linkedin - Deep Humanity - human INTERbeCOMing - example

First Contact via Linkedin done

for - progress trap - Consilience Project - progress trap - Daniel Schmactenberger - from - LinkedIn post - https://hyp.is/twtPIDFaEfC-DCuswNHo5g/www.linkedin.com/posts/danielschmachtenberger_development-in-progress-the-consilience-activity-7222883365371191297-DCPX/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

summary - Daniel is describing the condition known as a "progress trap",an unintended consequence of progress. - I provide a history of progress traps in my two Medium articles found in the annotation links above. - The idea of progress traps is a very important one, especially for modernity because it is a central and general organizing principle under which many disparate unintended consequences of progress can be subsumed. - As is common in paradigm shifts, it is only when a novel concept of sufficient generalization and relevance is introduced that numerous important problems that could not be explained sufficiently in an older model, can be explained more elegantly from a higher or deeper level perspective - Without recognizing a new category of "progress traps", the many different types of unintended consequences are treated in a fragmented and adhoc way.

for - post - LinkedIn - progress trap - Daniel Schmatenberger - to - article - The Consilience Project - Development in Progress - https://hyp.is/E3HHGDFaEfCZErPpYGIONg/consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/

for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world

new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews

review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity

Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb     - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both     - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas     - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones     - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades,     - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby     - uniting it with the universe itself -  From the unlimited potential of the tacit,     - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin     - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the     - individual and     - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity

• when we feel in a good state of health and wellbeing and absent of any disease
  • we feel when everything is within harmony in our temporary state of being alive
• Any disease shows us how the diseases-free state is so fragilely constructed
• disease-free is an and condition of many subsystems working together harmoniously -aspectualizing is creating
  • a perspective,
  • a word
  • an idea
• the greatest freedom of afforded when we are free of all perspectives
  • for that is when a new perspective can emerge
• When we cling to words and ideas, we cling to perspectives and aspects of the whole
• The teaching of one taste is the highest and most subtle teaching - equal taste - and easiest to be misinterpreted
  • because we are anchored in the world of many different tastes and of measurement and scale,
    • where some things are greater than others on our scale
• Bayo Akomolafe does some language construction - conlangering on his LinkedIn post on the derivation of the word "apolief" from "belief"

for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

for - post - LinkedIn - progress trap

for - invariant computing - Anirban Bandyopadhyay - Cheetah video - from - post - LinkedIn - Yvon Brousseau - Cheetah video post - https://hyp.is/3ISgVgP4EfCgvdN-KBpWLw/www.linkedin.com/posts/yvonbrousseau_invariant-computing-cheetah-video-activity-7305953865831526400-zLmL/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - post - LinkedIn - Emma Holten - book - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - to - book - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - https://hyp.is/ftgm4AP3EfC7MJfb8gJevg/www.penguin.co.uk/books/468871/deficit-by-holten-emma/9780753561461

for - book - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - quote - If we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future? - Emma Holten - from - post - LinkedIn - Emma Holten - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - https://hyp.is/7KpQOgP3EfCRe5dZ352aJQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/emma-holten_i-feel-a-little-bit-ashamed-almost-because-activity-7307688971705159682-zeZ0/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

Reply to Hajo Bakker on LinkedIn

Hajo Bakker Exam vs. Test -- Een examinering moet veel vanafwegen en niet regulier gebeuren.

Een test (toets) mag vaker gebeuren, en moet weinig vanaf hangen... Geen ouders die straffen voor een laag cijfer (of cijfers afschaffen), geen adviezen die daarvanafhangen, etc.

Het doel van een toets is om je aan te geven wat je krachten en minder sterke punten zijn, dus waar je je op moet focussen met toekomst leren. Dit kan alleen op het moment dat je een toets nabespreekt en op individueel niveau. Klassikaal bespreken heeft vaak weinig nut.

Daarbij komt ook dat een student moet snappen WAAROM het helpt om na te bespreken, de wetenschap erachter. Op het moment dat je de waarom achter het hoe niet goed snapt heeft het hoe minder effect. (dit is waarom in het 4C/ID model ze in een scaffold beginnen met de laatste stap, waarin de informatie van voorgaande stappen is gegeven. Dit zodat als je de vorige stap gaat leren, je een beter idee hebt waar het uiteindelijk voor gebruikt gaat worden en je er dus een betere invulling aan kan geven.)

Semantische verschillen zijn vaak uiterst nuttig om complexe stof te begrijpen. Op het moment dat ze exact hetzelfde waren heeft het weinig nut om meerdere termen te hebben en zouden ze synoniem zijn.

"Exam" is geen synoniem van "test".

Genuanceerde verschillen zijn vaak nuttiger dan "umbrella terms" om goed te communiceren, als uiterst subliem wordt beargumenteerd in "Science of Memory: Concepts" van Roediger III et al.

Daarnaast komt uiteraard bij kijken dat neurocognitieve wetenschap een blauwdruk geeft voor hoe onze brein architectuur in elkaar zit (zie bijvoorbeeld John Sweller, Cognitive Load Theory 2011, en The Forgetting Machine, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, 2017, Science of Memory: Concepts, Roediger et al., 2007, Ten Steps to Complex Learning, van Merriënboer, 2017).

Dit is universeel toepasbaar, afgezien van mensen met een cognitieve aandoening bijvoorbeeld, dit gaat dus over neurotypische breinen.

Leerstijlen zijn een mythe, wel hebben wij leervoorkeuren, maar door alleen in onze leervoorkeur te leren missen wij bepaalde informatie die cruciaal kan zijn voor beter begrip en meesterschap (mastery).

Beter is het om studietechnieken te gebruiken die overeenkomen met brein-architectuur en die onder te knie te krijgen.

Meer cognitieve belasting te gebruiken (zonder cognitieve overbelasting te veroorzaken). Als leren "makkelijk" voelt is het over het algemeen niet uitdagend genoeg en/of de techniek niet nuttig. Herlezen / samenvatten is simpel maar vrij inefficiënt. Het maken van een GRINDEmap voelt moeilijk maar is vele malen effectiever (zie ook the misinterpreted effort hypothesis).

Zoals Dr. Ahrens al zei: "The one who does the effort, does the learning."

Verder heb ik een heleboel ideëen voor een optimaal onderwijs dat zich aanpast aan het individu in plaats van aan het systeem, maar dit is een te complex en groot onderwerp om zo even hier neer te zetten.

for - post - LinkedIn - individual change vs system change - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt and climate action

comment - individual / collective gestalt would be helpful framing to sort out this confusion

for - commented - post - LinkedIn - book - The Molecule of More

Reply to Gertina Blanket on LinkedIn:

Jij legt in één klap uit datgene wat ik nooit goed heb begrepen uit de literatuur... Het verschil tussen interleaving en varied practice (die vaak als hetzelfde worden gebruikt in de "volksmond").

Het een gaat over verschillende hoeken kijken naar hetzelfde idee (varied practice) terwijl het ander gaat over verschillende maar soortgelijke ideëen (interleaving), bijvoorbeeld meerdere soorten wiskunde (algebra, trigonometrie, etc.).

Hierbij wil ik uiteraard wel zeggen dat blocked practice niet per se direct toegepast moet worden als het over automatisering gaat -- de cognitieve schemata moeten eerst goed gevormd zijn. Zie ook 4C/ID (Ten Steps to Complex Learning). Ofwel, eerst goede encoding + retrieval (Spaced Interleaved Retrieval, mindmapping, etc.) en dan focus op "drilling" / knowledge fluency.

Het sneller maken / automatiseren heeft geen enkel nut als het begrip er nog niet goed in zit. Dit moet geverifiëerd worden.

Kennis is natuurlijk ook erg interdisciplinair. Ik wordt er extreem blij van als ik een link leg tussen een boek over filosofie en efficiënt leren/onderwijs bijvoorbeeld.

Zo las ik ooit een boek over romeinse oratoren met een misleidende titel "How to Win an Argument" van Marcus Tullius Cicero, vertaald door James M. May, en hierin kwam ik tegen dat de oude Romeinen al door hadden dat LOGICA is wat het brein doet onthouden, en dit hoeft dus geen objective logica te zijn maar meer een correcte reflectie van hoe je eigen geest werkt en verbanden legt.

Dit is direct in lijn met wat ik weet van cognitieve leerpsychologie en mijn klein beetje kennis van neurowetenschap (waar ik dit jaar dieper in wil duiken).

Informatie in isolatie is nooit stevig, het moet zich vastklampen aan ankers en andere kennis (voorkennis eventueel), en de lerende (niet de onderwijzende) moet actief bezig zijn om deze verbanden te leggen.

Zoals ik wel vaker quote van Dr. Sönke Ahrens: "The one who does the effort does the learning."

Als ik een boek lees denk ik automatisch aan hoe ik dit kan relateren aan wat al in mijn second mind (Zettelkasten) zit. Ik denk niet meer linear, alleen maar non-linear. Standaard in verbanden.

Hier wat bronnen (impliciet) genoemd: - Cicero, M. T. (2016). How to win an argument: An ancient guide to the art of persuasion (J. M. May, Trans.). Princeton University Press. - Ahrens, S. (2017). How to take smart notes: One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking: for students, academics and nonfiction book writers. CreateSpace. - fast, sascha. (100 C.E., 45:02). English Translation of All Notes on Zettelkasten by Luhmann. Zettelkasten Method. https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmanns-zettel-translated/ - Luhmann, N. (1981a). Communicating with Slip Boxes (M. Kuehn, Trans.). 11. - Luhmann, N. (1981b). Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen. In H. Baier, H. M. Kepplinger, & K. Reumann (Eds.), Öffentliche Meinung und sozialer Wandel / Public Opinion and Social Change (pp. 222–228). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87749-9_19 - Moeller, H.-G. (2012). The radical Luhmann. Columbia University Press. - Scheper, S. (2022). Antinet Zettelkasten: A Knowledge System That Will Turn You Into a Prolific Reader, Researcher and Writer. Greenlamp, LLC.

• Schmidt, J. F. K. (2016). Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine. In Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (pp. 287–311). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004325258_014
• Schmidt, J. F. K. (2018). Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity. Sociologica, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/8350

for - depolarizing politics - by listening - DH - depolarizing politics - LinkedIn post - depolarizing politics - to - article - how to win back working class by listening - https://hyp.is/9eRGVPmuEe-PDbs--ct4ow/tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/neukolln-dreaming

for - applying Deep Humanity - to politics - German politician - how to win back the working class - from - LinkedIn post - how to win back the working class by listening - https://hyp.is/tNXrDvmuEe-KLr-D3J1kyw/www.linkedin.com/posts/jaimearredondo_neuk%C3%B6lln-dreaming-activity-7302967458137591808--TA1/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - comment - post - LinkedIn - Jon Alexander

for - from - post - LinkedIn - Nafeez Ahmed - Elon Musk - https://hyp.is/_3M0vOeLEe-RSrfue1zbFw/www.linkedin.com/posts/nafeezahmed_silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-activity-7293760025632620544-fw9w/ - article - Byline Times - Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government - Nafeez Ahmed - 2025, Feb 7 - to Curtis Yarvin - critique - https://hyp.is/XsnCyOegEe-P3ytMaKH6fQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xPF_SLZIPg

for - from - post - LinkedIn - Guido Palazzo - on Elon Musk and Accelerationism - https://hyp.is/laDhyOXtEe-BbR-zV7xadQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/guidopalazzo-_civilizations-did-rise-when-they-built-up-activity-7292962891819855874-fq2T/

summary - This is a good article that explains the rational behind a number of Silicon Valley actors such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others who subscribe to a toxic and dystopian mix of: - Longterminism - Libertarianism - Accelerationism - In order to understand the actions of the tech bros, it is key to understand their modus operandi

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for - from - adjacency - post - LinkedIn - new paper - reflexivity in transdisciplinary research - Indyweb research - https://hyp.is/9j6xwNSXEe-rwrMDE36CPg/www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7285568599447015424-sckS/

for - adjacency - post - LinkedIn - new paper - reflexivity in transdisciplinary research - Indyweb research - to - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10 - https://hyp.is/SXryuNSYEe-1zcu9-Y2ncA/www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/reflexivity-as-a-transformative-capacity-for-sustainability-science-introducing-a-critical-systems-approach/D6978EE9FF6C9B7DBB36212C2BB0B865

for - post - LinkedIn -Jeran Campanella - flat earth - climate denialism - conspiracy theory

for - article - LinkedIn - Breaking up with Psychology - Jason Ross PhD - 2024 Jul 1

source - I was searching for existential phenomenological psychology this morning on both Google and LinkedIn and going Jason's article on LinkedIn

// - summary - This is an interesting article that overlaps a number of areas I have been attracted to. - As he wrote, I thought of how Zen teacher and scholar David Loy also focuses on - emptiness and - that sense of lack - at the core of each of us - He didn't cite Loy's work. I wonder if he knows of it? - It was nice to see how he connected - Husserl and the German school of phenomenology and existentialism with - the French school of Sarte, Lacan, Derrida, etc - It gives a big picture of house all these thinkers were connected and timebound - It's was also interesting to read about Leonard Cohen as well. - Question - I wonder if the author knows about the decades long sexual abuse story of Cohen's teacher, Joshua Sasaki?<br /> - Along with all the abuse going in the Catholic church, it's sure to sow a lot of distrust and doubt about professed gurus and religion in general

for - quote - to cook you must kill - line from movie "The Hundred-Foot Journey - source - post - LinkedIn - Nora Bateson - sharing - Sherry Hess - 2025, Jan 8 - posted a comment - post - LinkedIn - Nora Bateson - sharing - Sherry Hess - 2025, Jan 8

for - quote - when writers die, they become books - Jose Luis Borge - source - post - LinkedIn - Jesus Martin Gonzalez, 2025, Jan 8

for - post - LinkedIn - misinformation - Meta joins Elon Musk and Twitter no moderation - 2025, Jan 8

for - report - climate crisis - food system transformation - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - from - post - LinkedIn - Jonathan Foley - This is very, very important - stats - 2.5% climate funding for food system that contributes 30% of global climate emissions - 2025, Jan 3 - https://hyp.is/zKE7vsqkEe-RFB8co7Pdqw/www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathan-foley-182808b9_foodsystemeconomicscommission-cop29-climatefinance-activity-7281009061003706369-P1b0/ - TPC network - motivation

for - stats - climate crisis - funding - food system - contributes 30% of global emissions - receives 2.5% climate funding - only 1.5% of the 2.5% goes to sustainable food systems - source - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - reposted on LinkedIn by Jonathan Foley - to - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - https://hyp.is/E3p2hsqlEe-tG0ezHCPriw/futureoffood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ga_climatefinancereport_2024.pdf - TPC network - motivation

for - reply to post - LinkedIn - Nora Bateson - New Years 2025 post

for - rapid whole system change - the neighborhood is the unit of change - David Brooks - 2018 - from - post - LinkedIn - Commentary on David Brooks book "The Second Mountain" - Jonathan Boymal post - reply from Danica Virginia Meredith - 2024, Dec 26 - https://hyp.is/nmhiKMNfEe-PCtfVd4Z75g/www.linkedin.com/feed/

for - post - LinkedIn - How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - Man Fang - Post Growth Institute - to - Medium - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - By foregrounding relationships — between individuals, communities, and the natural world — we can build systems that prioritize wellbeing and resilience - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang

to - Medium - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - By foregrounding relationships — between individuals, communities, and the natural world — we can build systems that prioritize wellbeing and resilience - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang - https://hyp.is/a2HCSrlTEe-um4thfDGo-A/medium.com/postgrowth/rediscovering-harmony-how-chinese-philosophy-offers-pathways-to-a-regenerative-future-07a097b237a0

for - climate crisis - Medium article - climate communication - how climate change is framed to disempower you - Joe Brewer - 2024, Dec 4 - from - post - LinkedIn - climate crisis - climate communication - climate change discourse has been framed to disempower us - changing the story - so that grassroots, bottom-up initiatives can restore health to ecosystems - Joe Brewer, 2024, Dec 4 - from - Resilience article - A 'Transcender Manifesto" for a world beyond capitalism. A seed.

summary - A good article that offers an explanation of how language has potentially led the public to rely on top down actors to provide solutions to the climate crisis - Joe Brewer draws on his background as a frame analyst to analyse the role language and cognitive linguistics has played in framing the discourse on the climate crisis - He claims that this has led the public to look to elite top down actors to provide the solutions - This had led to a disempowerment of the public in actively participating in contributing too solutions - Indeed it could be why we have a sleeping giant - Reframing the story could have the opposite effect of inspiring people's to wake up and take action to regenerate nature within and surrounding the communities where people live.

from - post - LinkedIn - climate crisis - climate communication - climate change discourse has been framed to disempower us - changing the story - so that grassroots, bottom-up initiatives can restore health to ecosystems - Joe Brewer, 2024, Dec 4 - https://hyp.is/yvHstLfVEe-cyRN4sq09Ow/www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-brewer-4957925_earlier-this-week-i-lived-into-an-important-activity-7270035170328494080-E7Cq/ - from - Resilience article - A 'Transcender Manifesto" for a world beyond capitalism. A seed. - https://hyp.is/0NOdtLiREe--pwPfB1SmdA/www.resilience.org/stories/2024-04-18/a-transcender-manifesto-for-a-world-beyond-capitalism-a-seed/

for - post - LinkedIn - climate crisis - climate communication - climate change discourse has been framed to disempower us - changing the story - so that grassroots, bottom-up initiatives can restore health to ecosystems - Joe Brewer, 2024, Dec 4 - to - Medium article - How Climate Change is framed to Disempower you - Joe Brewer - 2024, Dec 4

to - Medium article - How Climate Change is framed to Disempower you - Joe Brewer - 2024, Dec 4 - https://hyp.is/XoQoRLfVEe-ZMIMjZheLLA/medium.com/@joe_brewer/how-climate-change-is-framed-to-disempower-you-01d871413487

for - post - LinkedIn - question - Trump-proofing climate change research in the US

for - Financing System Health: The Pando Fund - from - post - LinkedIn - The Pando Fund - Anna Muoio - Donna Nelham - reposted

from - post - LinkedIn - The Pando Fund - Anna Muoio - Donna Nelham - reposted - https://hyp.is/Kp1TxqyFEe-mCvOdRbASQA/www.linkedin.com/posts/amuoio_i-did-a-thing-it-surprised-and-tbh-horrified-activity-7266495510641786880-_hNJ

for - post - LinkedIn Pando Fund - fund for enabling conditions of system change - Anna Muoio - reposted by Donna Nelham - to - Medium article - Financing System Health: The Pando fund - Robert Ricigliano and Anna Muoio, 2024, Aug 24

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for - Donna Nelham Linkedin repost - the Pando fund - to - Medium article - The Pando fund

to - Medium article - The Pando fund - https://hyp.is/tTqHeqyEEe-cftsBDBYfpg/blog.kumu.io/financing-system-health-the-pando-fund-d2a14087f7da

for - post comment - LinkedIn - suggestion - turn COP into a hybrid event with a maximum carbon emission threshold

for - post comment - LinkedIn - Mohamed - Bronwen - degrowth - question - colonialism and degrowth - inclusion of indigenous socieities

for - post comment - LinkedIn - polarization - Trump 2024 win - lack of collective - adjacency - Deep Humanity - deep time, species-wide singularity - conservativism vs progressiveness - progress - political polarization - progress trap

adjacency between - Trump 2024 win - Deep Humanity - anthropocene as deep time species-wide singularity - progress traps reaching a climax - conservatism vs progressiveness - adjacency relationship - This fits into a Deep Humanity explanation: - We are moving through a deep time, species singularity in which - once isolated pockets of cultural seeking and interpretative systems for explaining reality have been rapidly mashed-up via: - communication and - transportation technology - There is a singularity now where two forces are battling each other: - conservative that values old traditional cultural values and norms and - progressive that values the future possibilities - There are different cultural flavors of this. Whether it is - political polarization that pits authoritarian vs democratic ideologies or - climate change that pits traditional fossil fuel systems vs new renewable energy systems - the way we've always done things is in conflict with new ways of doing things through natural human evolutionary change - progress - In fact, we can look at the deep time, species-wide singularity that is now happening across all fields in the anthropocene as a predictable progress trap arising from progress itself

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for - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit - from - LinkedIn - Donna Nelham repost of - Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit

from - Linked In - Donna Nelham repost - Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit - https://hyp.is/WUQ9qHhFEe-tIDuxzbtm9w/www.linkedin.com/posts/griffith-centre-for-systems-innovation_themes-and-tools-collective-imagination-activity-7242354970841284608-W5AO/

Nice focus on learning strategies, this is rare in formal education.

Response by Ahrens to my question/criticism